Hope you enjoy this Dreamer and Eagle ;) "Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven." This challenge was really hard Dreamer! I was a bit confused on the writing prompt so I hope this was what you were looking for! So for this prompt, I'm writing a story focused on Silvercloud, Ravenstar's daughter. For moons, Ravenstar's family has been wracked with grief. How is Silvercloud supposed to react? Well, she's supposed to change herself to be able to be happy.

A silver tabby lay outside the nursery watching her kits play. The four kits tumbled around together. Fernkit, Poolkit and Willowkit bugging their brother Ebonykit. A light snow storm had started and big puffy flakes fell around the camp of WolfClan. Silvercloud kept a close eye on her kits noses making sure they didn't turn from the dark pink to light pink. She watched smiling softly as Fernkit kicked snow up at her brother.

A gray tom padded over.

"Silvercloud are you alright?" he asked concerned, making her jump.

Silvercloud nodded "fine love."

Duskstorm didn't seem convinced and lay down beside her licking her shoulder "we can't mourn forever."

Silvercloud closed her eyes a fresh wave of grief swimming over her for her two dead kits. She pressed her face into her mate's fur. She thought over all the losses her family had endured since she had been born. Her brother kidnapped by Dragon the leader of the Burning Empire. The group of rogues that were formed to take out the Clans. Her brother turned against them, never to remember them again. Her sister killed by her brother. Her father on his second last life two of them stolen by her brother. Silvercloud looked over at her daughters and son. She saw her mother, Stormmist slip out of the warrior's den and forced a smile at her grandchildren. She saw her father slip out of the leader's den. She watched him lick her son between the ears and smile over at them.

She smiled softly back "Ebonykit, Fernkit, Willowkit, Poolkit. Come on it's getting cold."

The four kittens started to complain all at once "but mom!"

"Come on kits," Duskstorm meowed nudging them to the nursery.

The three she's grumbled slipping into the nursery while Ebonykit just shrugged. Silvercloud slipped into the nest beside them curling around them. She began to lick their fur grooming them as well as warming them up. The she-kit grumbled about going to bed before they began to slowly drift off. Ebonykit stayed awake longer but was quiet he just liked to spend time alone with Silvercloud without his siblings. Silvercloud purred grooming his fur he had on a piece of fur that always poked up in the back. Silvercloud thought it was adorable.

"Close your eyes Ebonykit," Silvercloud purred.

Ebonykit let out a yawn and fell into a doze. Silvercloud felt her heart fill with love and happiness for her four bundles of energy. She curled around them placing her head down. She felt her heart swim with emotions. She remembered her family's past grief even her grandfather had inflicted major grief and had handled it much like her father did. Silvercloud felt her heart throb with fury when she thought of her father's way of grieving, the thing that had caused her so much grief in the past.

She remembered when her sister had been killed by her brother and her father had been viewed as a killer. He had hurt his Clanmates. She remembered stories of her aunts death that lead to her father leading an attack on WaveClan. She sighed when she thought of how she had been like him in a way when grief was too hard to bare. She had been trying hard not to allow her grief to force her to become like her father but it was a lot harder to do when she had been brought up by her father who hurt cats every time there was grief and her mother who curled up in a ball and forgot every cat barely letting Ravenstar in. Silvercloud glared at the crowded nursery and got to her paws careful not to wake her kits she slipped out of the nursery and breathed deeply. She smiled at her sister Mistypaw and brother Longpaw who were sitting beside each other eating. Without their mother to coo over Longpaw every day and completely ignore Mistypaw they had grown much closer. Brackenpaw padded over with a mouse and sat beside Mistypaw and smiled at her. Silvercloud had noticed her sister start to befriend the tom and had noticed how her father didn't even flick an ear nor did he when Longpaw had began to show interest in XXX. She felt upset and mad at first but then realized that it was just a good thing for her siblings.

Silvercloud padded over to the prey pile and grabbed a mouse she padded back and sat outside the nursery she began to eat slowly watching camp. Ravenstar padded out of the den and padded to sit down beside his daughter.

"Hello Silvercloud," he purred.

"Hi dad," Silvercloud meowed looking at him.

"How are the kits?" he asked.

"Energetic. They take after their father," she purred fondly.

Ravenstar chuckled "how is the nursery? Warm enough?"

"It's fine there are so many cats that the cold is sometimes welcome," she meowed.

Ravenstar looked at his daughter and nodded.

Silvercloud sighed "what has the Empire been up too?" she wouldn't tell any cat but she felt left out with her

"Aside from poisoning the river and attacking EarthClan nothing. Though you should have seen WaveClan at the last gathering something's not right." he meowed.

Couple moons later:

Silvercloud watched from the sides not able to move from terror. She watched her brother pin her father down. She sent a silent prayer to StarClan that somehow her father would survive. Then something Silvercloud couldn't believe happened Stealth turned to the crowd of cats watching.

This battle had raged out for a long time. The Empire had attacked just before moonhigh and now Silvercloud could see the signs of the sun peaking over the mountains in the distance. It was the second time the Empire had attacked at the gatherings and this time the Clans had been hit even harder. With the Clans still weak from not being able to eat all the prey that was in their territory as well as the sickness that had been dragging on in the Clans. Silvercloud shifted her gaze to let it flicker along the hollow where the Clans held gatherings. Dragon's group of rogues had left and now only one remained her brother. She felt her heart hammer against her chest as she saw cats dragging friends and family either died or badly wounded to their medicine cats to be cared for. The Clans forgetting who belonged to who. She saw even her own snappy medicine cat helping to patch up Palestar of EarthClan. Her ears rang with crying and grief filled conversing with w

"Help! Help, please! My father, he's dying!" he shouted.

Silvercloud felt her ears flatten as Stealth turned to look at her.

"Silverkit help!" he screamed.

Silvercloud stared at him "you killed him!" she snarled claws digging into the ground.

"That was Stealth! I am no longer Dragon's son. I am Stealthkit son of Ravenstar and Stormmist! Brother of Silvercloud and Cloudpaw!" he meowed.

Silvercloud narrowed her eyes "why should I believe you?"

"Please Silvercloud our father is dying!" Stealth begged.

Silvercloud felt the fight towards her brother her leave her and sprinted forward she looked down at her father and knew it was already too late. I will fight until my last life to bring your brother, back to our family. Her father's words rang in her ears.

She crouched down by her father "you did it, dad! Stealthkit came home!" she meowed.

Ravenstar smiled weakly up at her "I know."

Silvercloud's ears flicked back towards her mother's grief-stricken wail as she pushed through to her mate's side. Silvercloud watched her mother and took a step back bowing her head. Mistypaw and Longpaw crowded around their father. Mistypaw burying her face in her father's pelt.

"I killed him," Stealth whispered.

Silvercloud looked at her brother "Stealth killed our father. Stealthkit would never do such a thing."

Stealth looked at her "I am so sorry Silvercloud."

"You didn't know Dragon tricked us all," Silvercloud muttered.

"We have to kill him," Stealth meowed.

Silvercloud nodded "we do."

"Silvercloud!" Silvercloud looked over at her mate as he yowled her name. Silvercloud padded over to him and pressed her fur against his tears filling her eyes. She looked over and saw her mother looking at her.

Silvercloud padded over to her father "we will get Dragon dad."

"Be careful he's not going to go down easily," he rasped.

Silvercloud nodded.

"Go fetch Flamepelt, Duskstorm please," Ravenstar croaked.

"Quickly," Silvercloud murmured.

Duskstorm with a final look from his father-in-law to his mate took off.

"I'm okay. I get to be with all of my family again," wheezed Ravenstar.

"Say hi to Berrytail and Sandstar for me," Silvercloud meowed.

Ravenstar nodded.

Flamepelt pushed through the crowd of WolfClan cats, Duskstorm on his paws.

"Stormmist, Mistypaw, Longpaw a moment please," Ravenstar asked weakly.

Mistypaw and Longpaw half dragged half lead their mother away. Silvercloud made to leave.

"Not you Silvercloud," he meowed.

She nodded.

Flamepelt looked at his friend "go quickly Ravenstar."

Ravenstar nodded "lead WolfClan well."

Flamepelt nodded "I will. Promise."

Ravenstar turned to looked at his daughter "Silvercloud it's no secret that StarClan has a plan for you."

Silvercloud nodded slowly "I know."

"Just be careful please," Ravenstar begged.

"That's what mom said when you were going to get Stealth you weren't careful," she meowed.

He raised a brow "that was different."

"I will do what I need to do to protect both the Clan and my family," Silvercloud meowed "how is that any different?"

Ravenstar sighed which caused him to hack weakly.

Flamepelt crouched beside his friend and flicked his ear for Silvercloud to fetch her family.

"Mom, Longpaw, Mistypaw," she meowed.

They nodded and padded off.

Silvercloud looked over at Stealth who was crying away from the crowd "you too."

Stealth sighed getting to his paws and padded off he sat down beside his brother and looked at his father.

Silvercloud stayed away from going to find her mate and kits. She found them together. Rainpaw nursing a wound on Ebonypaw's leg. Silvercloud licked Ebonypaw between the ears. Before gazing at her daughters checking for wounds. Poolpaw looked up at her.

"Daddy says grandpa is dying," she meowed.

Silvercloud felt new tears stream down her cheeks.

Duskstorm got to his paws and pressed against her and licked her shoulder to sooth her. She pressed her face into his neck fur.

Their children began to whisper among each other about kit and apprentice things who they thought should be the next deputy.

Finally just before moonhigh Silvercloud looked up to see Flamepelt calling to the WolfClan cats. Silvercloud looked at her mate.

"You go, I'll stay with Ebonypaw," he offered.

Silvercloud licked his shoulder before limping over to stand around her deputy and the new leader.

"Cats of WolfClan today we lost many cats. But we also gained one," he meowed.

Silvercloud watched as many cold glances were shot towards Stealth. She was surprised to see her younger siblings share the glare. She saw Flamepelt glance at Stealth with uncertainty. She wondered if Flamepelt was only allowing him to stay because of her father.

Flamepelt continued "I will not travel to the Cave tonight I will travel after I have mourned for our losses. But before moonhigh, I do need to pick a new deputy."

Flamepelt let his gaze travel along his warriors.

"Spirits of StarClan I say this name before the spirit of Ravenstar so he may hear and approve my choice. Silvercloud you shall be the next deputy."

Silvercloud felt the world freeze she stared at her father's friend and now her leader. She then bowed her head "thank you." she murmured as she padded to stand beside her leader.

Silvercloud saw her children murmur excitedly to each other and to their denmates. She saw Duskstorm smile at her. She saw her mother just flick her ear as she lay sobbing into Silvercloud's father's pelt. She saw her siblings smile at her. But the only person she really cared about that was there was her brother Stealth. She gazes at him and smiled as her family and clanmates began to chant her name.

Silvercloud felt pride surge through her before she sat back down and looked at her leader.

"Also Stealth please step forward." Flamepelt meowed.

Stealth did as he was instructed he flicked his ear.

"From this moment forth you shall no longer be known as Stealth the killer but Stealthfeather," meowed Flamepelt.

Silvercloud was one of the first to begin chanting her brother's new name. She beamed at him forgetting at that moment all that he had done to her. Even the night that he had almost killed her daughter Fernpaw.

Silvercloud knew at that moment that she was not going to follow her family's path of being sappy and grief filled. Yes, there was time to mourn for your family and friends but then there was the time to push that all aside for those that continue to live. She saw Flamepelt signal that the meeting was done and she padded over to her brother and smiled at him.

"Thank you Flamepelt," he meowed before turning to her.

"At least now I have a battle training partner whenever," she meowed nudging his shoulder playfully.

Stealth smiled at her "anytime."

Silvercloud looked around and began to mourn for her father and her dead clanmates some hurt more than others. When she spotted Swiftfoot her mentor surrounded by his crying family she stopped in her tracks and let herself mourn for him. When she saw her friend Mouseflight surrounded by her kits and Owlflight she felt her heart flip with fury. She had been too gentle to die.

But when she limped helping her son limp back to camp. She felt all her grief leave her. Though sometimes it came back like a wave splashing on the coastline almost knocking her over but she always found her paws. She now looked around trying to send out patrols finding this hard with how many cats were injured she knew that after so many years of her family always being known to hurt cats because of grief she would not be lead down that road. Now if only she could teach that to her mother, Mistypaw, and Stealthfeather.

"Stealthfeather, take Fernpaw, Duskstorm and Badgerclaw hunting try around TimberClan border." she ordered.

Stealthfeather nodded dipping his head "yes Silvercloud."

She felt her shoulder lift of the weight of so many cats from her family and finally, she could just focus on the future and the present occasionally remembering the past when she needed to stay strong or choice a path. But when she died moons later she had been the happiest of the descendants of the mighty Ravenstar.

So that turned out to be a lot longer than I wanted it to be! But I hope you like it!